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vhsalum

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Libertylover said:
What the big deal adding 4 weights? The Olympics don’t make enough money to buy medals for 4 weight classes. Drop break dancing, cut back on the various kiaking, skate boarding , mountain bike events, and put wrestling and weight lifting back in prime time instead of those “sports”. Two of the most classic Olympic sports deserve prime time. I don’t know why everyone drools over swimming and gymnastics, because other than Olympics, they are lucky to dry flies to their collage events. All these X games sports just draws interest from the niche of people who do those activities. College wrestling out draws all of them .
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Probably because none of what you said is true.

Wrestling is VERY low in terms of viewership. Sure NCAAs, but that doesn't translate to FS/Worlds/Olympics. It is getting a LOT better though.

More people, including casuals, are more inclined to watch swimming and X games stuff. Sad, but true. Break dancing was a one-time thing - and outside of that stupid woman, it probably would have been a great addition to the games.

The IOC is a bunch of corrupt, inept evil mitches. But I know UWW is fighting hard to get more weights. Fingers crossed it doesn't have to include dropping Greco, but right now, that's where the IOC is.
 
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UndercoverHawk said:
That’s not the point. The prime time tv is bringing the sport to a wider audience. The only people watching wrestling on the specific stream are the die hard fans and they would be watching regardless of it being in the Olympics.

If the Olympics isn’t bringing in any new viewers then how much is it really elevating the sport? If wrestling was no longer in the Olympics and you polled random people throughout the world and asked if wrestling was an Olympic sport you would get an overwhelming majority still say yes.
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And the point was that social media coverage and promotion are becoming every bit as important as prime time TV. When an American wins gold (for example), NBC and others pump it all over social media. When that happens at worlds, it isn’t even mentioned by major media. Wrestling can’t afford to give up that visibility.
 
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HollisterHawk said:
I bought my US Open tickets a couple of weeks ago crossing my fingers he's going to register. If he wins the Open he doesn't have to compete at team trials the following month. Competing at the Open gives you two chances to make the team.
I've never seen Spencer or ADS wrestle in person. Anyone else plan on going?
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Hawk fans dont travel well at all for these events
 
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Grapple24 said:
Hawk fans dont travel well at all for these events
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Damn it! I was looking to Cesspool it up in Vegas! Rudis just put out a interview with Spencer and it's a great watch. Sounds like he's going to the Open and possibly Pan-Ams. Imply's fear of losing a couple of times and working through it. He sounds like he's in a great place mentally. I'm prepared to see him rip some arms off like a hairless gorilla
 
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Libertylover said:
What the big deal adding 4 weights? The Olympics don’t make enough money to buy medals for 4 weight classes. Drop break dancing, cut back on the various kiaking, skate boarding , mountain bike events, and put wrestling and weight lifting back in prime time instead of those “sports”. Two of the most classic Olympic sports deserve prime time. I don’t know why everyone drools over swimming and gymnastics, because other than Olympics, they are lucky to dry flies to their collage events. All these X games sports just draws interest from the niche of people who do those activities. College wrestling out draws all of them .
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Libertylover said:
What the big deal adding 4 weights? The Olympics don’t make enough money to buy medals for 4 weight classes. Drop break dancing, cut back on the various kiaking, skate boarding , mountain bike events, and put wrestling and weight lifting back in prime time instead of those “sports”. Two of the most classic Olympic sports deserve prime time. I don’t know why everyone drools over swimming and gymnastics, because other than Olympics, they are lucky to dry flies to their collage events. All these X games sports just draws interest from the niche of people who do those activities. College wrestling out draws all of them .
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I don’t think it’s I much the medal count as 4 weights is 64 more athletes plus their teams of ppl that accompany them. They have to logistically have places for them.
 
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SpacemanSpifff said:
How about we drop synchronized swimming instead?

Wrestling is a classic sport…I can’t believe they have reduced it to 6 weight classes for the Olympics. I hope there is active lobbying to get this changed.
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I am familiar with the guys who lobbied to keep wrestling - I’m good friends with one of them - and we are lucky to have the six. vhsalum appears to know the story; we should have given up Greco.

Imo the folks who run the Olympics have no appreciation for or knowledge of competition sports. Certainly they lack awareness or concern for sports history. Their priorities lie completely elsewhere, so lobbying is difficult.
 
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